- From: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:33:47 -0800 (PST)
- To: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Cc: www-style <www-style@w3.org>, Thomas Phinney <tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu>
David Singer wrote: > Do variations such as lining figures, small caps, or swash italics, > fall within this area? If so, I think it not unlikely that some > fallback fonts will support those features. Lining figures and small caps are not font specific. Several of the 'font-variant-alternates' values are font-specific but most other font features are not, including kerning, ligatures, numerical formatting, capitalization and CJK features. That's why the scope of possible problems is somewhat limited I think. What do you mean precisely by "swash italics"? Swashes in the italic face? If so, yes, those are font specific (see swash properties under 'font-variant-alternates'. Not sure fallback fonts would typically support swashes, websafe fonts don't appear to support much more beyond ligatures. Cheers, John
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